A Life Shaped by Struggle and Ink Born in Groningen, Netherlands, in 1877, Albert Hahn grew up in what he later described as respectable poverty. His father was a man of many trades, painting signs, making frames, and working with glass. This humble beginning meant that the boy's path was never easy. At the age of nine, a battle with tuberculosis in his vertebrae forced him to leave school, a setback that would shadow much of his earl…